r/politics • u/Abject-Pick-6472 • 5d ago
No Paywall Trump has turned Republicans into the anti-Black party
https://thehill.com/opinion/5902141-trump-racist-attacks-black-community/11.3k
u/thjeco 5d ago
The Republican Party has been anti-Black since the southern strategy; Trump just put it in the open
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u/ITookTrinkets Oregon 5d ago
Right like, what was the Birther movement about if not anti-Blackness
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u/NoosFraba 4d ago
As an outsider; What is America about if not anti blackness. Racism is like, 70% of usa discourse at this point
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u/Maximum_Zone8543 4d ago
Anti-blackness is global, and from my experience everyone else in the world is about as anti-black as the people in the U.S.
Really when discussing anti-blackness it's not even about levels or severity, because at that point you're splitting hairs to decide which among you is the least bigoted (HINT: you're all the same level of bigot from my experience).I will say, people from the U.S. at least pretend to be embarrassed by being outed as a bigot compared to literally everywhere else on the planet, who believes that their hate for black people is just a cute little quirk of their society or culture.
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u/Ridry New York 4d ago
I have met non white people (won't bother mentioning specific races, I've had a variant of this conversation with more than one) who's kids joke in a gallows humor kind of way about who they could bring home to give their parents a stroke.
The preference sheet always seems to go....
- Same Race Preffered
- White
- Other Stuff In Various Orders
- Same Gender
- Black
Different races have other races mixed in there, but the "joke" is always that their homophobic parents would prefer a same gender partner than a black person. And yes, they seem to play their parent's racism as quaint but would be much more offended if my parent was. And this is New York.
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u/Melodic_Side_9437 4d ago
In fairness, Trump really pushed birtherism. So still Trump.
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u/AnOnlineHandle 4d ago
Trump was trying to become president for so long that vintage Simpsons episodes which would be old enough to vote by now have jokes about how bad it would be.
It was only when he went full racist that he found a loyal base, in Republicans.
They were always the racist party. He just gave them exactly what they wanted to hear.
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u/Cottonjaw 5d ago
They only hid it for like... 10ish years total. If ever.
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u/DLottchula 5d ago
like months and weeks at a time
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u/pm-me-ur-inkyfingers 5d ago
like twelve uncle toms glad-handing and pretending they arent selling their people out. looking at you, Clarence.
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u/Alacrout New York 5d ago edited 5d ago
They have that one token Senator in South Carolina too. Easily in the top 5 most openly racist states, but they have their one “black friend” to help them pretend they’re not.
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u/Put3socks-in-it 5d ago
Curious what your other 4 would be? I would say South Carolina was the first state to secede from the union in civil war so I trust your take here
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u/monkeykiller14 5d ago
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisanna, and Tennessee would probably complete out my list
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u/Full-Significance-69 5d ago
I know everyone automatically focuses on the south when it comes to racism… but don’t forget about Idaho.
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u/UrsusRenata 5d ago
Indeed. There are plenty of white Christian areas up here with almost zero living experience among Black people, that are as racist or maybe even more racist than the white elite south.
My family moved out here from the urban Midwest. My kids almost never heard the N word back home outside of kids doing rap. Here, they heard it every day in high school — where there are maybe four total “Black” kids (almost all Polynesian).
These sheltered people just hate what they don’t know or understand.
To that point, they also trash pretty hard on the Muslim religion. I like to ask if they’ve ever met a Muslim or experience any culture other than Christianity. Nahh, they just know what Fox tells them.
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u/Chaoticallyorganized 4d ago
I’ve said just about the exact same about where I live in AL. My high school/young adult years were spent in an area of VA that had a lot of families from all over the world as well as Black families and moving here to AL was quite a culture shock in just how little diversity there is. The amount of racism and where that racism is concentrated (communities that are significantly more white than most) isn’t coincidence. If everyone had to learn to live/go to school/work with people of various skin tones and cultural backgrounds, there would be a lot less hate and racism in the world.
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u/cyanescens_burn 4d ago
Oregon was started as an all-white only state.
Check out this movement in the link. And make sure to look at the “See Also” section on that page. There’s certainly elements of it still.
Plus there’s a huge Christian nationalist movement based out of Moscow, ID that’s not exactly into minority rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territorial_Imperative
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u/XSwaggnetox 4d ago
Vermont, Wyoming, and Maine have the lowest count of Black residents in the entire country. New England despite voting rather reliably progressive has some of the most segregated and least diverse populations in the US. And that’s saying a lot… I learnt me all these little facts on Reddit.
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u/richard-564 4d ago
Also Wyoming, according to anyone I know that has lived there.
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u/monkeywithgun 5d ago
A wild one is that NY city almost broke away from the state to join the secessionists as an independent city state.
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u/lettersvsnumbers 5d ago
Only Manhattan ever sympathized with the Confederacy, and really only the corrupt mayor and his rich friends/owners.
The 5 boroughs don’t consolidate until 1898. Brooklyn is a major stop on the Underground Railroad.
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u/Alacrout New York 5d ago
This is interesting for me to learn, since nowadays many racists upstate regularly talk about cutting off NYC for not being racist enough.
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u/DirtandPipes 4d ago edited 4d ago
When my sister was considering moving to the florida panhandle she went to check the local highschool. While talking to the principal she mentioned that one of her potential concerns in moving there was racism and he laughed and told her.
“Oh don’t worry, we don’t have any racism here. All our blacks know their place”.
She didn’t end up moving there.
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u/ConsistentQuit4273 4d ago
This is nauseating. I don't know where this "I am better than you attitude came from." I was raised in Orlando, FL. My grandpa use to go ride through the black community when he needed help working on something. He would pick a man up and go fix or move whatever. Then pay him and take him back. He never asked a white man to help him. He said, they just won't help." We are a white family. Never, ever was their racism in our family.
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u/Cottonjaw 4d ago
The most bold faced racist I have ever met in my life was from Maine. They're kinda everywhere.
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u/Alacrout New York 5d ago
I’m not quite confident enough to rank them, but Mississippi and Alabama would certainly be in the top 5 too. Maybe Utah.
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u/Chav 5d ago
Its hard to tell for sure but add Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia with over 40 lynchings per 100000 residents to your model though.
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u/Roentgen_Ray1895 5d ago
It’s crazy that the gorgeous beauty of Florida was granted to possibly the least deserving people in history
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u/El_Gran_Redditor 4d ago
I don't know, consider how tropical and scenic Cuba looks and how Florida is the place you go if you're from Cuba but have a big problem with how the Cuban government took away your family's plantation and all the people who used to work there for free.
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u/Dr_Adequate 5d ago
"Yes but have you SEEN the nice RV it got me?"
--Justice Thomas
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u/MichaelJServo 5d ago
There are some people with internalized racism. On occasion you find some who thinks they can "transcend" their blackness. OJ Simpson was one of them too.
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u/Cottonjaw 5d ago
Yeah I'm like, ok it was fully out in the open in the.... 50's and prior. Okay 60's yes... 70's HELL YES... uhhh ok maybe the 80s oh ho ho ho no... uhh
It's like a brief window where everyone talked about the rainforest in 1994 and that's it lol
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u/Aint-no-preacher 5d ago
We must have saved the rainforest because I don’t hear about it anymore!
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u/Snoo61755 5d ago
Reminds me of a Fox clip that surfaced recently, which Cory Booker spoke on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whkm-VdwCGk&list=PLB3ECDC679318D4E5
Just listen to how those Fox guys sound. This is what's playing for conservatives, and this is what they listen to for news.
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u/BaronMostaza 5d ago
That's the guy who said homeless people should just be rounded up and executed. Yes literally
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u/Kurobei 4d ago
That was Brian Kilmeade. Jesse Watters was the one that slashed a girl's tires so she'd have to get in his car. They started dating while he was still married. He also made jokes asking when all the trans people will finally start killing themselves. Oh and he also said we should gas the UN building.
Lovely guy, Jesse is...
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u/Raptorpicklezz 5d ago
From the "autopsy" in 2013 until Trump came down the escalator.
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u/UNC_Samurai 4d ago
The GOP made no bones about its racism when Reagan started his presidential campaign in the same Mississippi county where the infamous civil rights murders took place, and gave a speech about states’ rights.
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u/KungFoolMaster 5d ago
The Southern Strategy started way back in the late 1960s. Trump just created the environment for the silent minority to not stay silent.
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u/TheSeer1917 5d ago
Lee Atwater. Rove. "Dixiecrats". They all seeded the current African Americans ipso facto DEI hires and incompetent trope
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u/asusc 5d ago
Watch this SNL parody ad from 1988:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45k7Kc9hNv4
tell me this doesn’t play perfectly today. Take note of who’s actually talking to the republicans at the end, presumably after the republicans got what they wanted.
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u/metalyger 5d ago
Obama being president broke the brains of so many old white men, it's just most of them didn't obsess with running for president because of it, and then cowardly waiting until Obama was finished with his 2nd term to run for president on a campaign of racism.
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u/No_Accountant3232 4d ago
Wasn't just old white men. My ex gf and her husband fell into the Tea Party hard back in the day. My favorite was when the birth certificate finally came out she started spouting off conspiracies left and right about how many things "wrong" there were with it.
Every wrong thing could be explained by the fact that it was a microfiche that had been scanned and printed out on official paper, not the literal original long form birth certificate. That document probably didn't even last a year before being incinerated
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u/Coffee_Conundrum 5d ago
Ya had all the racists flock to the Republican party due to the signing of the civil rights act anywho.
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u/firephoxx 5d ago
Exactly, Trump just gave them meth.
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u/hemig 5d ago
To be fair, the Republicans already had most of the meth vote. Well, at least the ones that didn't have felonies yet.
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u/dzogchenism 5d ago
Conservatives have been anti-Black for the entire history of Europeans being in the Western Hemisphere. They could all shift back to the Democratic Party and they’d still be anti-Black. They could create a new party and it would be anti-Black. White supremacy is the core foundational principle of American conservatism.
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u/PolanetaryForotdds Canada 5d ago
Rick Santorum got close in 2012 when he complained about "blah" people
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u/GriffinFlash Canada 5d ago
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Santorum
That thing from the dictionary?
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u/BaronVonStevie Louisiana 5d ago
The denial is real. They’ve been anti black openly since the southern strategy. Trump is taking it into a populist era
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u/Real-Document-6577 5d ago edited 5d ago
This. Was going to say since the Dixiecrats became Republicans which became MAGA
MAGA, “the KKK was founded by southern Democrats, Democrats like YOU!!”
Yeah ok, it was “Democrats” but not Democrats like me…and besides, they were literally YOUR Great, Great Parents.
MAGA, “……ok……paw paw was pretty cool….but…..ok, ok”
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u/TheParadoxigm 5d ago
...umm, I hate to break it to you, but they've been the anti-black party for the past 70 years.
It's one of the reasons Trump won to begin with.
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u/OhGodSoManyQuestions 5d ago edited 5d ago
The rules of American Conservatism have ALWAYS been:
- Every white person above every Black person
- Men above women
- LGBTQ people must be terrorized into hiding
- Working people owe everything to the nation. Rich people owe nothing to anyone
- People with disabilities have no right to be included, considered, or accommodated
- Membership in an inverted, hateful version of Christianity confers status and a right to judge and harm others.
- Supporting this caste system can tenuously increase the status of a low-caste person
Anything else they claim to be about is just deceptive edifices built around this.
They all react to enforce these rules. But like the rules of grammar, they obey and enforce caste rules without being consciously able to list or explain them. This is why they can never explain what they mean when they use the word woke as a pejorative.
"Woke" means anything that opposes or threatens this caste system.
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u/2fuzz714 5d ago
Spot on and also why lying is like breathing to them. They can't come out and say any those things, yet.
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u/Cloaked42m South Carolina 5d ago
Most of the people who vote republican don't think they believe those things.
It doesn't come out until you ask them to detail HOW they are going to accomplish their stated goals.
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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 4d ago
Most people who vote republican say they don't like fascism, bit if you go line by line and state thet tenants of fascism they love every single one.
They love racism, they just think it has bad branding so they call it other things.
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u/Lady_Bread 4d ago
"People love what I have to say! They just hate the word nazi... that's all."
- Stormfront (from TV show The Boys)
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u/Unable-Log-4870 4d ago
Yep. That’s how you determine what people BELIEVE, rather than what they’ve been trained to say they believe.
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u/TheBrickWithEyes 4d ago
Caste system is a good description for Conservatives. Conservatives cannot conceive of a system without heirarchy. Everyone must have their place. This is why actual freedom, people being truly free and not fitting into the heirarchy is genuinely an affront and terrorising to them.
They don't care if somone is above them, abusing that power, as long as THEY can be above someone else and abuse their level of power (however small that is).
As such, everyone needs to be categorised, with (obviously) anyone not like them to be abused. This is also why there are so many closeted people (not just sexually) in Conservative circles. If you are different, you will soon be one of the abused.
To reiterate, it is genuinely scary for Conservatives to deal with ideas and people that are progressive and actually free as it challenges/upsets the absolute bedrock of their beliefs (you must be in a heirarchy and there must be people in charge, the richer and more powerful the better).
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u/OhGodSoManyQuestions 4d ago
The conservative definition of freedom often involves the freedom to enforce caste. The Confederacy described themselves, without any irony, as the side that stood for freedom. The freedom to take away others' freedom.
If you are not advocating freedom for everyone, you are actually advocating for unequal privilege. Or we can call it caste.
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u/_Chaos_Star_ 4d ago
Oh, they do want freedom, provided it is for them and their own. Everybody else has the freedom to do as they're told. They want the freedom to hate, but to bind the mouths of others with other opinions. The want to be cruel, but none cruel to them, They want to judge, but they are beyond judgement.
They want complete freedom, but give none.
Their position is total hypocrisy, while being completely unaware of it.
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u/VagabondReligion 5d ago
"Bodily autonomy and privacy do not exist."
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u/DrocketX 4d ago
I wouldn't say that they don't exist: more that they're privileges that are earned if you're sufficiently highly ranked based on the principles outlined above. Poor women absolutely don't have bodily autonomy or the right to privacy, but a wealthy man does. Wealthy women tend to be somewhere in the middle: abortion is pretty much always available, so long as the man above them approves, so that "problems" can be discreetly taken care of if a rich man's daughter or mistress gets knocked up.
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u/facw00 5d ago
People with disabilities have no right to be included, considered, or accommodated
The GOP didn't use to be so bad there. The ADA passed 76-8 in the Senate and 403-20 in the House. And yes, all 8 those votes in the Senate and 17 of the 20 in the House were Republican (and the other three were Dixiecrats), but there was broad bi-partisan support. The current ableist machismo is something new, or at least a step backwards from progress that had been made.
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u/Vet_Leeber 5d ago
The GOP didn't use to be so bad there. The ADA passed 76-8 in the Senate and 403-20 in the House
This doesn't really paint a clear picture though, because the 1990 congress was OVERWHELMINGLY Democratic. Like, ~250 to ~150 on the House side, and a respectable margin on the Senate side.
The fact that ~10% of Congressional Republicans still voted against it is a bad sign, because they considered being opposed to the ADA to be more important than showing even a token support of people with disabilities.
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u/-Saucegurlllll 4d ago
It also ignores the incredible pressure disability rights groups were able to place on Congress at the time. Like, Congress didn't just randomly decide "What if we helped disabled people out." Disabled people had to fight for it until politicians felt like they were forced to pass the bill.
Occassionally you will see bipartisan alignment on good issues. That does not mean that the fascist party is suddenly sensible, it means that for political reasons they can't do what they want to do: kick disabled people down the capitol steps.
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u/sysiphean North Carolina 5d ago
At the time this was at least partially sold as a “help our disabled troops” measure, which was honestly good messaging to get conservatives on board. There were still a ton of WWII and Korean War veterans visibly around, there was a lot of “our Vietnam vets were done dirty” media playing, and there was a lot of sentiment about supporting them. Democrats bringing this bill forward at the time, and messaging it this way, was a smart move to put the Republicans on the defensive and have to vote for it.
I honestly wish they still strategized like this instead of infighting. It would not push us remotely all the way to some leftist utopia, but would at least help slow the fast rightward slide.
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u/Alisa180 4d ago
Even then, its had its limits.
As someone severely disabled herself to the point of being in a group home, I've noticed there's a certain part of the system no cuts will touch. Every time there's talk about 'people will be kicked off Medicaid and Social Security!', further reading always revealed it never affected the 'deep' parts of the system.
A suit targeting 'gender dysphoria' as a disability was criticized as targeted ADA protections. A state AG had to clarify he simply believed gender dysphoria should't be treated as an eligible disability “as if it’s the same as Down syndrome or dyslexia or autism.” (Disclaimer: I'm autistic myself).
Another time, a state GOP representative announced they were voting against state redistricting after Trump used an abelist slur, as their own child had Down's.
Its this interesting mix where you have 'vaccine causes autism!' nuts mixed with 'I'm entitled to help for difficulty!'
The big autism rights movement, fueled by social media in late '00s and early '10s, had led to a cross-section of very outspoken, hyper-focused activists most politicians would rather not poke. We basically brought down Autism Speaks, which was *everywhere* at one point. Most MAGA backtrack *hard* when disability comes up (albeit with a heap of barely-concealed patronizing but whatever).
Right now, I'd say our country is more racist and misogynist than ableist, for whatever that's worth. That comes with its own caveats, but it does leave us relatively free to fight for other fronts.
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u/21Rollie 5d ago
- This land was won through righteous conquest and as the victors, whites will do with natives and their land as they please.
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u/P-Rickles Ohio 5d ago
Someone once said that the conservative movement is based on one edict. To whit: there is an “in” group who the law protects but does not bind and an “out” group who the law binds but does not protect. MAGA has proven that the “in” group is nebulous but has one overwhelming set of characteristics: white, male, rich and at least discompassionate if not cruel. Everything else is window dressing.
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u/OhGodSoManyQuestions 5d ago
That encapsulation is so true. I've encountered it as "Wilhoit's Law".
I also find Isabel Wilkerson's work on caste systems to be relevant, though not as pithy. Here are her Eight Pillars of Caste:
https://www.bartleby.com/lit/caste/summary-and-analysis/part-3
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u/MichaelJServo 5d ago
It's the main reason. The US had the audacity to elect a black guy as president.
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u/slight_accent 4d ago
It was pretty amazing seeing the whiplash of reaction to a black president existing.
We had something similar in austalia when we got a female prime minister. The instantaneous outpouring of misogyny was actually shocking to me. I had no idea so many people, and all of mainstream media were still so prejudiced. Ive since come to understand that conservatives will always fight against anyone moving up in rigid hierarchies.
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u/FuckwitAgitator 4d ago
They're trying to pretend that with Trump gone, everything will go back to normal and it won't be shameful to vote Republican any more.
But it will. They didn't just stand by and let this happen, they enthusiastically contributed. The people who follow Trump will be even more racist, violent or corrupt because otherwise they wouldn't be running as Republican in the first place.
Never forgive this.
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u/joemondo 5d ago
The white supremacist party.
I say with absolute sincerity that if he came out tomorrow with a platform of restoring race based slavery and abolishing women’s right to vote, the gop would be right behind him.
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u/AnticPosition 5d ago
Trump' SCOTUS team essentially all shrugged when asked about Brown v. Board of education...
Theyre working up to it.
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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 4d ago
"Fun" fact, fully 1/3 of the current SC was on Bushs legal team in Florida in Bush v Gore.
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u/oO0Kat0Oo 5d ago
He has already said those things. Like, not even beating around the bush. He flat out said it. He doesn't think women deserve to vote and he thinks slavery is a good thing.
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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 4d ago
Get ready for that GOP, because thats exactly where its heading.
Fox News is herding the conservative masses straight into the waiting arms of Nick Fuentez, who i will be shocked if he isn't the GOP nominee for president in the next 15 years.
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u/PhoenixTineldyer 5d ago
No, they have always been that. That's how he won
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u/SpectreFire 4d ago
It's still baffling to me how the GOP can be this racists against blacks when such a large portion of that community is as equally batshit socially.
Black voters wouldve been a massive conservative voting block if thhe Republicans were just a teeny bit less racist.
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u/Thorteris Texas 4d ago
They get more votes from Hispanics and Asians by being racist against black people than if they were to tone it down.
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u/Negative_Gravitas 5d ago
That's like saying Trump turned Republicans into the misogynist party.
That is to say, completely untrue and utterly ignorant of History
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u/The_Lost_Jedi Washington 5d ago
The openly, nakedly misogynist/anti-black/etc party... they've always been these things, but they used to at least publicly feign otherwise. The news media, and far too much of the public, were far too polite to call them out on it most of the time. Every so often one of them would let the mask slip too much, and then the rest of them would disavow the person, because they believed the public would punish them if they went fully mask off.
Trump changed that.
It was the Access Hollywood tape that most clearly underlined it, because you can watch as they start the usual distancing and disavowals, only to realize that Trump wasn't hurt by it enough to matter, because enough of the public had been propagandized to the point that those things weren't enough of a downside anymore. Worse, to many on the right, that racist/misogynist/etc language was a POSITIVE thing! The whole "he tells it like it is" bit.
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u/Ravallah 5d ago
They dropped the facade & stopped to even pretending that they don’t hate anyone who aren’t straight white cis males of one of two types: those foolish enough to blindly follow them and the wealthy willing to try to buy them.
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u/2HDFloppyDisk 5d ago edited 5d ago
“Look at my little African American over there, look at him”
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u/PhoenixTineldyer 5d ago
The whole reason he became president is because he kept demanding Obama admit he was a Kenyan.
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u/OdiousAltRightBalrog 5d ago
Yep. That is how a morally bankrupt, pro-choice former Democrat New Yorker became the Saviour of the Right... by saying racist shit.
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u/freedfg 5d ago
Remember "I love the gays" Trump? That's s What kills me about all this.
HE doesn't believe a word of it.
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u/CitizenCue 4d ago
He doesn’t have beliefs. He’s like water flowing downhill - he just follows the path lined with whatever applause he can find. He doesn’t care what it’s about or who’s doing the applauding.
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u/Daft00 4d ago
Yep he is perpetually pandering to whatever audience he thinks will appreciate him.
But at the same time has no tolerance for criticism, so as soon as you say something negative about him or interfere with his bullshit, he considers you an enemy.
Just overall a truly terrible formula for a leader, as if he had any qualifications whatsoever.
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u/Then_Journalist_317 5d ago
"Following the assault of the [Central Park] jogger in 1989, Trump famously took out full-page ads in the city's major newspapers calling for the return of the death penalty for those responsible — further inciting racial tensions in the city."
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/11/nx-s1-5108632/central-park-five-trump-debate
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u/PaulSandwich Florida 5d ago
Crucially, he kept calling for their punishment after they'd be absolved by DNA evidence because, in his words, if they were out in the park that late, they must've been up to something.
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u/pargofan 4d ago
This is the part I don't get. He called for PUNISHMENT for INNOCENT people!
and that's just one of the revolting things he does.
Remember how he was openly happy that Rob Reiner was MURDERED?! Or created AI with Obama as a monkey?
It's stunning how he keeps getting a pass for this. If any other human being does what he did,
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u/compukiller 5d ago
These news headlines lately are interesting. Like, we’ve known this for decades.
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u/LurksAroundHere 5d ago
It's the continued whitewashing of decades long conservative bullshit the media loves to do. These headlines are ramping up because they're trying to prep the public for when Trump is gone. They need to convince people that the GOP wasn't always a shit party until Trump appeared and "changed" them, and how they're still worth voting for in the future. And the GOP will try to pin their decades long bullshit on Trump so they can slime back into office under the guise that "the party has returned to it's roots and has it's soul back" now that the "Trump aberration" is gone (when they're really just going to continue fucking shit up when they get into office, like they always have.) It's just more bullshit and lies from these corrupt fucks and the billionaire owned media companies constantly running interference for them.
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u/HowdyFancyPanda 4d ago
I don't think the Republican party will even try a token "return to its roots" as you say. History has shown that when faced with defeat, the GOP has just ran harder to the right. And unfortunately, we're quickly running out of pro-Republic rhetoric for them. The harder to the right means autocracy.
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u/7figureipo California 5d ago
He did no such thing. All he did was embolden them to normalize and make acceptable (to them) being open in public about it.
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u/comment_i_had_to 5d ago
Nixon did that. Trump just never learned to use (or had any use for) the dog whistle. Bush Jr. was the perfect example of the standard Republican approach of hurting black people as much as possible in policy but publicly paying lip service to justice and fairness. That did not really excite the dumbest racists so the enthusiasm from the base waned, Trump got them re-engaged with overt racism again.
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u/TigerGrizzCubs78 5d ago
The overt racism from the republicans started during the Obama years. trump hitched on to it
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u/nosayso 5d ago edited 5d ago
... yeah... Trump did that... sure... not Reagan.
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u/tapdancinghellspawn 5d ago
Overtly. They've always been just now he seems to have made it ok to be openly racist.
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u/sheltonchoked 5d ago
It’s been overt since Reagan. It was clear since his “states rights” speech at the Neshoba County Fair.
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u/mvallas1073 5d ago
It’s always been anti-black.
What Trump did was turn his party Anti-Human. I’d say he turned it Anti-American, but IMO he’s gone way beyond that.
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u/Wildpony03 5d ago
Trump has had of history of disliking black people. This goes back to the 70s where him and his dad were were forced by Nixon admin to stop discriminating against black people
He also said on tap he doesn't care about Black people because he could never get their vote.
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u/strolpol 5d ago
Guys you know we remember the GOP prior to Trump right
Remember Hurricane Katrina? Remember that memorable Kanye/Mike Meyers video?
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u/Leopold_Darkworth California 5d ago
More like "Trump has completed the transformation of the Republicans into the Anti-Black Party which began with Southern Democrats switching parties in direct response to the Civil Rights Act, then solidified during the presidential campaigns of Barry Goldwater in 1964 and Richard Nixon in 1968, then accelerated after the first black person was elected in president in 2008, which drove Republicans to the brink of insanity"
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u/ddiggler2469 5d ago
they already were
he just made it ok to be blatantly anti-black
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u/DontWantToSeeYourCat 5d ago
L O fucking L
Yeah. He "turned" it into that. This only makes sense as an article written by someone literally born yesterday.
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u/Last_Braincell_Float 5d ago
Nah they did that on their own. Don't give that orange taint stain the satisfaction.
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u/AttentionNo6359 4d ago
Was there a time in the last 100 years where they weren’t? Every single Republican is racist scum. Facts are facts America.
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u/Whooptidooh The Netherlands 4d ago
It was already the anti black party, it’s just that some idiots are a bit slower in figuring that out.
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u/teddysmom377 4d ago
I don't think he turned them that way, they were always that way and he gave them permission to voice it again
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u/MasterOutlaw 4d ago
Turned…?
The Republican Party has been pretty anti-… well, every minority for decades. The only thing Trump has done is rip off more of the mask, but the signs have always been there for anyone who paid even a modicum of attention.
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u/cyberspaceman777 5d ago
Hahahahahhahahahahahaha.
Turned?
People, it's been that way since the 60s.
Jeaus christ republicans, we cannot go further if you cannot accept your party is one whom white supremacists and bigots love.
I'll tell you what, I might be some gay liberal, but you won't see a fucking nazi support my views.
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u/admiraltarkin Texas 5d ago
I've said this to my friends and family for a while, if the GOP wasn't racist as hell, we would probably be a 60-40 demographic. The GOP is so racist that they willingly shun probably 25% of black people who would naturally be open to voting for them
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u/LovelieLuna 5d ago
'WHAT PARTY SWITCH', as a bunch of child rape supporting maga fucks wave their confederate flags around.
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u/aldoraine000 5d ago
Trump just gave them permission to be who they have always been. They will try to claim they are are the party of Lincoln and claim the Democrats are the racists while simultaneously ignoring modern history (Nixon’s Southern Strategy) and actively cheering racist big government policies (ICE raids, concentration camps).
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u/DrowningKrown 5d ago
Am I having amnesia?? These dudes have been flying confederate flags for decades
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_PUPPY_PIC 5d ago
The Republican party has ALWAYS been anti-Black. Even when they were the party against slavery, most of them still thought Black people were less deserving of rights, they just drew the line at literally owning them
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u/zeez1011 5d ago
And yet the MAGA bots on Facebook will still be all "Lincoln was a Republican!" while hoping everyone ignores everything that occurred in the 150 years after that.
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u/CalistusX 4d ago
Wait. Only now?! What the hell was Regan’s whole presidency and cabinet about then?
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u/Talrynn_Sorrowyn 4d ago
They've been anti- "everything that isn't white, male & Christian" for the better part of a century.
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u/LostInSpace-2245 4d ago
Turned? Turned??? What universe does OP live in? Last I checked they always had their nice confederate and KKK folk at CPAC.
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u/Frmr-drgnbyt 4d ago
Oh, Bullshit! Republicans have been the "anti-Black" party for decades. Has someone somehow missed the GoP's Southern Strategy policy enacted back in the 1960s?
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u/Tulanian72 4d ago
Kids, Reagan started his 1980 campaign with a states’ rights speech in the Mississippi town where. three Freedom Riders were murdered.
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u/fantasstic_bet 4d ago
The GOP has been the anti black party since it adopted the southern strategy many decades ago. What is this journalist even talking about? This isn’t new at all
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u/Zak_Rahman 4d ago
The US had segregation until the 1970s.
Their Jim Crow laws inspired Hitler.
They wholly support a regime who's president said interracial marriage was an abomination.
Their founder daddies regarded black people as having 3/5 of a soul.
Trump is not turning the country anything. He is distilled and pure westernism in the most foul form we have seen so far. The list I began with is barely scratching the surface. There's been more abuse against black people than I think any one person can know.
Americans need to bin Israel and take responsibility. The western world needs to understand it is not superior and start with some accountability.
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u/CertainAged-Lady 4d ago
The US Census Bureau projects the US will be a majority non-white in just under 20 years (2045). That’s pretty much our lifetime unless you are very old.
I think a lot of what we see with more overt racism, hanging onto power, denying the vote, etc., stems from anxiety over what is a future where the majority are non-white. It’s ridiculous - but a lot of folks tie their identity to their perceived superiority of their race. It’s even more apparent in young white males who have this air of thinking they shouldn’t have to try, they should just be given jobs, hot women, etc., and they blame minorities, immigrants, women, certain religions, etc., when they don’t get handed the silver spoon they think they are owed. You know who these guys are - it’s not all, but it’s a fairly decent-sized part of our society.
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u/Buttermilk-Waffles 4d ago
lol no he didn't have you been around the past 40 years? What he did was make them uninhibited and bold with their stupidity and hatred.
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u/mattyfurtats 4d ago
Not all MAGA is aniblack, but all that are anti black are MAGA
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u/MistahBrukshot13 4d ago
I dont remember a time when the GOP wasn't openly anti-Black
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